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Author / Creator:Sakwa, Richard.
Edition:2nd [enl. and rev.] ed.
Imprint:London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.
Description:xvii, 501 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Post-communism -- Russia (Federation)
Post-communism -- Former Soviet republics.
Politics and government
Post-communism.
Russia (Federation) -- Politics and government -- 1991-
Former Soviet republics -- Politics and government.
Russia (Federation)
Soviet Union -- Former Soviet republics.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2609837
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ISBN:0415154839
9780415154833
0415121604 (pbk.)
9780415121606 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [430]-493) and index.
Summary:Richard Sakwa's Russian Politics and Society is the most comprehensive study of Russia's post-communist political development. It has, since its first publication in 1993, become an indispensable guide for all those who need to know about the current political scene in Russia, about the country's political stability and about the future of democracy under its post-communist leadership. For this second edition, Richard Sakwa has updated the text throughout and restructured its presentation so as to emphasize the ongoing struggle for stability in Russia over the last five years. This edition includes the full text of the constitution of 1993; new material on recent elections, the new parliament (State Duma and Federation Council), the development of the presidency and an evaluation of the country's political evolution during the 1990s; up-to-date details on the development of a federal system and on local government; and a thoroughly updated bibliography.
Table of Contents:
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • Preface to the third edition
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note on style, spelling and transliteration
  • Glossary of acronyms, acrostics and terms
  • Part I. The fall of communism and the rebirth of Russia
  • 1. Soviet communism and its dissolution
  • The Soviet system
  • Perestroika
  • The emergence of Russia
  • Popular insurgency and regime decay
  • Conclusion
  • 2. The disintegration of the USSR
  • The August coup
  • The disintegration of the USSR
  • Problems of state-building
  • Conclusion
  • Part II. Political institutions and processes
  • 3. The new constitutional order
  • Crisis and culminations: October 1993
  • The 1993 constitution
  • The Constitutional Court
  • Constitutionalism, law and the state
  • Conclusion
  • 4. Law and society
  • The legal system
  • Crime and the mafia
  • Corruption and metacorruption
  • The security apparatus and politics
  • Human and civil rights
  • Conclusion
  • 5. The executive
  • The presidency
  • The government
  • Public administration: from nomenklatura to civil service?
  • Conclusion
  • 6. The legislature
  • The State Duma
  • The Federation Council (FC)
  • Parliamentarianism and Russian politics
  • Conclusion
  • 7. Electoral politics
  • The experience of elections
  • Elections and the Russian political system
  • Conclusion
  • 8. Party development
  • Stages of party development
  • Parties and the multi-party system
  • Problems of social representation
  • Conclusion
  • Part III. Federalism, regionalism and nationalism
  • 9. Federalism and the state
  • Ethno-federalism and its legacy
  • Russian federalism
  • Conclusion
  • 10. Regional and local politics
  • The organisation of power
  • Federalism and regional politics
  • Local self-government
  • Conclusion
  • 11. National identity and state-building
  • From empire to state
  • Russian national identity
  • State-building
  • Conclusion
  • Part IV. Economy and society
  • 12. Marketising the economy
  • The road to the market
  • Problems of the Russian economy
  • Evaluation of market reform
  • Conclusion
  • 13. Society and social movements
  • Social structure and dynamics
  • Welfare and incomes
  • Social movements
  • Conclusion
  • 14. Cultural transformation
  • The media
  • Culture and the intelligentsia
  • Religion and the state
  • Political culture and public opinion
  • The crisis of values
  • Conclusion
  • Part V. Foreign policies
  • 15. Foreign policy
  • The evolution of foreign policy
  • The structure of policy-making
  • The debate over foreign policy
  • Russia and the world
  • Conclusion
  • 16. Commonwealth, community and fragmentation
  • The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
  • Security and peacekeeping
  • Minorities and Russians abroad
  • Conclusion
  • 17. Defence and security policy
  • The end of the Soviet armed forces
  • The great retreat
  • Defence conversion and arms sales
  • Nuclear politics and non-proliferation
  • Military reform
  • Civil-military relations
  • Military and security doctrine
  • Security policy and Nato enlargement
  • Conclusion
  • Part VI. Dilemmas of democratisation
  • 18. Problems of transition
  • The challenge of history
  • Transitional justice
  • Models of transition
  • Conclusion
  • 19. Pluralism, elites, regime and leadership
  • Russian pluralism
  • Old and new elites
  • Regime politics
  • Leadership and regime change
  • Conclusion
  • 20. Democracy in Russia
  • Democracy, liberalism and the Russian state
  • A struggling democracy?
  • Notes
  • Select bibliography
  • Index
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